A GOLD-SPLASHED BRONZE TRIPOD INCENSE BURNER 16TH – 17TH CENTURY

well cast with a bombé body flanked by a pair of handles, each with a small everted tab, all supported on three tapering legs, the base with a recessed cartouche enclosing an apocryphal three-character Xuande seal mark, liberally decorated overall save for the mark with gold splashes
17.3 cm, 6 3/4 in.

Provenance:
A closely related but slightly smaller gold-splashed incense burner from the J. de Lopes bequest and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, pl. 7, catalogued as 16th-17th century.